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Flight, January 13, 1927 CHT ZURCRZkFTBNGINEEFL 4$ &£> First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor : STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 942. (No. 2, Vol. XIX.) JANUARY 13, 1927 TWeekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. L The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telegrams: Truditur, Westccnt, London. Telephone: Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom .. 30s. id. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d.* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormal conditions and to increases in postage rates. • Foreign subscriptions rmist he remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE The First Link Forged !•' A Three-eiigined Performance 14 And at the Other End of the Scale 4 The " City of Delhi " IS London-India Flight '6 The Vojenska Smolik S.16 18 Light'Plane Club Doings 20 The R.A.F. Cairo-Cape Flight 1 Airisms from the Four Winds 2 Air Ministry Notice to Airmen 2M Personals '-4 Royal Air Force 25 R.A.F. Intelligence 5 " Commercial Air Transport" 25 Institution of Aeronautical Engineers 23 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices 6 Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers 2(i Westland Aircraft Society 26 First Link Forged " FLIGHT " PHOTOGRAPHS. To those desirous of obtaining copies of "Flight" Photographs, these can be supplied, enlarged or otherwise, upon application to Photo. Department, 36, Great Queen Street, W.C.2 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are incited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list :— 1927 Jan. 13 Jan. 25 Feb. 1 Professor F. C. Lea, D.Sc, M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E. " Some Experiments on the Effects of Repeated Stresses on Materials," before Inst.Ae.E. Capt. F. S. Barnwell, B.Sc, O.B.E., A.F.C., F.R.Ae.S. (Honours Member). " Some Notes on the Design of Airscrews," before Inst.Ae.E. Mr. A. H. R. Fedden, F.R.Ae.S. " Super charging for Aero Engines," before R.Ae.S. ITH the arrival at New Delhi of the de Havilland " Hercules," carrying as passengers, among others, the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, and his wife, Lady Maud Hoare, the first link has been forged in the chain of Empire air communications which will ultimately connect Great Britain with even the most distant parts of the British commonwealth of nations. The occasion is an historic one in itself, and it may surely be taken as a good omen that the flight of the first three " Hercules " machines was en- tirely successful, the schedule arranged before the commencement of the flight being adhered to practically without exception, the only delay to occur being caused by an extremely severe sandstorm that compelled, or at any rate rendered advisable, a return to Jask. As Sir Samuel Hoare pointed out on the arrival of the machine at Delhi, this was the first time that a Cabinet Minister had arrived by air in India, that a lady had made such a long flight, that a lady had arrived in India by air, that an Officer Commanding Air Forces had arrived by air to take charge of his command (this reference is, of course, to Air Vice-Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond) and that a commercial aeroplane had flown from England to India. It was equally the first time that a letter from His Majesty the King was delivered by air to the Viceroy' of India (Lord Irwin). Incidentally, this was probably also the first time in the history of flying that a flight of this distance has been attempted, following a fixed time-table. Taking it all round, we have cause to be satisfied with our first step in Empire aviation, and for that we must largely give credit not only to the de Havilland machine, the Bristol engines, Capt. Barnard and Mr. Wolley Dod, the two pilots, Squadron-Leader Johnstone, the navigator, and the engineer and wireless operator, but also to Sir Samuel Hoare, to whose initiative is due the fact that the flight became possible. Nor should we overlook the very important part played by Lady Maud Hoare, who, although she chooses to make light of her experience, has shown great enterprise and determina- tion in undertaking what must, after all, have been a fairly arduous journey.
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